Do I have a brain tumor?
I constantly worry about this sort of thing and I'm seeing a doctor about it in a few days, but I just wanted to know what your opinion would be. I'm 16, I had sudden nausea today and a dull headache on my forehead that is off and on and only lasts for a few seconds before going away. My left hand feels like it has been soaking in hot water for a few hours and is almost completely numb, I can still feel it, but it's a very weak feeling. My right foot kept going numb last night (I was laying on my back, so there is no way that I was sleeping on it funny) and I have trouble breathing sometimes, gasping for air when I'm lying down and waking up in the middle of the night with a pounding heart for 3 nights in a row. I have lost my appetite, but that only started today. I can't even eat a single bite of food without my stomach churning and telling me to stop eating. What is your opinion on this?
I'm convinced I have a brain tumour?
I'm only 16 and i suffer with severe anxiety but I'm so scared that it's something more serious, I have on and off shooting pains in my head, back pain, a fuzzy feeling in my legs, dizziness, ears popping, ringing sound in ears, I also often feel strange or 'foreign' as they call it. I also get a pressure feeling in my nose, I'm also going through exams so my mom keeps saying it's stress and anxiety? But I can't get the brain tumour idea out of my head, please help me
Are brain tumours sore to touch ?
In response to your question... A brain tumor might cause headaches or throbbing in the general area but, because it would reside under your skull bone, it would not be sensitive to your touch. So the answer is no. As for your blood tests, sometimes "markers" show up in blood that hints that a cancer is possible. When these markers show up, the doctor will order additional tests to prove or disprove the existence of the cancer cells. If you have a spot on your skull that is painful to the touch, it could be most anything. Maybe it's a zit that is becoming sore. Maybe you scratched it somehow. How about an ingrown hair? Perhaps you bumped your head and caused a bruise. A hard bump could also be the cause of your headaches. Like I said, it could be most anything. If the pain does not go away after a couple of days or if it gets worse, I'd go to your doctor and ask him specifically what is causing your pain. Good luck!
Can you survive a brain tumor?
Yup!Depends on the tumor: malignant vs non-malignant, how early it’s caught, and whether it’s encroaching on vital structures or not.This, for instance, is a meningioma. It’s a mass formed from meningeal tissue.These are two different views of the same tumor.See how nice and round it is? We call that well-circumscribed. Here’s what it looks like at autopsy:Again, you can see how well contained the tumor is (it’s that round thing at the top). This is not a tumor that sends tentacles into the surrounding tissue.If you cut it out, you should be able to remove it entirely without causing too much damage.Here’s an example where it such a tumor was removed. You’ll noticed that the “after surgery” picture looks pretty darn good:Now, not all meningiomas are this nice. Some of them can be malignant:But assuming you get your surgery early enough and major structures are not affected, you can live quite a while if your tumor is benign.Now let’s look at something else:This are two images of the exact same tumor: a glioblastoma multiforme, also known as a grade IV astrocytoma. The first view is called T1: it’s better a delineating anatomy. The second view is called T2: it allows you to better look at fluid. You can see that the borders are much less defined. There’s also something we call midline shift, like the tumor is causing so much pressure, it’s squeezing the opposite side of the brain. There is also a lot of fluid around the tumor: that’s the bright area under what looks like the ball of the tumor. It would look something like this at autopsy.Now, it would be hard to remove such a tumor without doing a lot of damage to the surrounding tissues.As you might imagine, the survival rates are a lot lower.Even then, some people will survive… just not very many.
Brain tumor or hypochondria?
Hi everyone, this is my first post. I'm a 16 year old male, and I'm really worried (or obsessed) over having a brain tumor, so if anyone can enlighten me, please do. Alright, it started off 7 weeks ago. I had a bout of constipation, and I googled about it. Among everything, I read about how brain tumors can cause constipations, which sparked me off. After a day reading that article, I felt weakness in my arms, as if I done too much workout, and my arms turned jelly. I got really worried, and googled it again... And read everything about brain tumor. This problem passed, and I became much more focus on my constipation problem (I believed that I had colon cancer until a week ago). 3 weeks after, I began having headaches and felt dizzy. I had this weird feeling that I was out of touch of the world, as if there was fog in my head. It went on for a week or so, before it subsided. I must also say that I had a common cold during that period, probably causing those symptoms. Yet, I felt very very sure that I had a brain tumor. Soon after, I went back to thinking I had colon cancer. Now, 4 days ago, I begun having neck aches, which translated to mild earaches. I read about Craig Shergold, a kid who had brain cancer, and apparently, he had earaches as a symptom of brain tumor. My earaches got a bit worst, and I felt unexplained pressure in my ears. 2 days ago, I begun having headaches, though the pressure in my ears were gone. I can't really seem to put my finger on it, whether it is headache or earache, but whatever it is, it convinces me even further that I've got a brain tumor. So today, I've found a lump at the back of my head. It's at the base of the skull, and seemed weird... My question is, am I being stupid, or do i really have brain tumor?? Please help, please! Thanks in advance!
Are brain tumors sore when you touch your scalp ?
Normally you wouldn't have a brain tumor when you touched your scalp. My mom had Brain cancer stage 3 and her head never hurt. She ended up finding out when my grandma wanted her to go to the doctor cause she wasn't looking to good. She told me she had little seizures that she didn't really know she was having them.But she knew something was wrong. I suggest seeing your doctor or go to the hospital. Im not some really brilliant doctor I'm just telling you what happenedd to my mom and her head didn't hurt. I'll pray that you don't have cancer. I hope my information helped you at all.
I suspect that my mom has a brain tumor. I’m panicking. What can I do to calm down?
I can't promise you that it will turn out like my mother's but my mother survived her brain tumor. And she did not only have one, she had about 16 of them. she had lots of headaches and took a ton of Tylenol. When we first found out we were terrified, devastated, in a state of shock. She went through her radiation and chemotherapy and they all disappeared! Within three months she was back at work, with much less hair but she was still with us! Her hair wasn't the same, it was coarse, thin, you could see through it and see her scalp. We didn't realize how much she didn't like that until much later. I wish I could have helped her with that. Her brain cancer was metastatic, which means they know it started from somewhere else in her body. I was 18 at the time and wasn't told any results or informed. I wished I was. She was supposed to go in for yearly check-ups after that. I didn't know or I would have made her go in every 6 months. Apparently they knew it would come back at some time but the kids weren't told. My parents separated so I didn't know any of this. By the time she was throwing up and sick from it again 4 years later it was too far gone. She developed a cancerous mass in her back. I thought she could fight this one no problem because she had survived 16 brain tumors. This was just a mass. But it attached to several of her organs and liquid was constantly filling her lungs. She couldn't eat. She was being treated for 6 weeks. I didn't know she wouldn't make it until a Thursday, two days before she actually passed on October 19, 1997, when a doctor told me over the phone she had maybe a month or two left. I sat and cried. Then two nights later she had a stroke and passed away slowly at 5am. It was only me and my mom living together at the time. It was a shock. I expected her to survive and then two days later she is gone. Cherish every minute with your mom. You never know when it is going to happen. I was lucky to have another 4 years with her after the brain cancer. Who knew the brain cancer was the easy one to fight. My two brother and my sister never got to see her before she died. I was with her when she did and can't get that out of my mind. I kind of wish I wasn't, it has changed me for life.
What are the percentage chances of brain tumors?
If you are concerned, I say go pay a visit to your doctor. I'm no professional, but I can tell you the symptoms my 3-year-old son, Conrad, had before he was diagnosed with brain cancer in February. First, he had a limp, but we thought he just twisted his ankle rough housing with Daddy and our two big dogs. Our pediatrician agreed since he did x-rays and found nothing. Then, it got much worse, his head started hurting all the time, he would vomit for no apparent reason, and he would sleep ALL the time. Doc said it was probably a cold or something. The day we brought him into the ER and they found a mass in his brain he had had two seizures, one at home (which is why we took him in) and another in the ER shortly after we arrived. He is now receiving chemotherapy and will be starting his radiation treatments very soon. What you have sounds more like stress head aches or maybe an ear infection. There's no harm in asking your doctor though. Good luck! -Mommy to Conrad, 3yo brain cancer smasher!